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Stanley S. Love (born April 9, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player. He is the father of basketball player Kevin Love and the younger brother of Beach Boys member Mike Love. During the late 1970s, Stan was also employed as a bodyguard, trainer, and assistant to band member Brian Wilson, the Loves' cousin.

Stan Love

Love in 1972
Personal information
Born	(1949-04-09) April 9, 1949 (age 73) Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight	215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High school	Morningside (Inglewood, California)
College	Oregon (1968–1971)
NBA draft	1971 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9th overall
Selected by the Baltimore Bullets
Playing career	1971–1975
Position	Power forward
Number	13, 34
Career history
1971–1973	Baltimore Bullets
1973–1975	Los Angeles Lakers
1975	San Antonio Spurs
Career highlights and awards
2× First-team All-Pac-8 (1970, 1971) Second-team All-Pac-8 (1969)
Career NBA and ABA statistics
Points	1,579 (6.6 ppg)
Rebounds	929 (3.9 rpg)
Assists	181 (0.8 apg)
Love Stats  at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Background

Love grew up in Baldwin Hills in West Los Angeles and was the fourth of six children to Milt, a union sheet metal worker, and Glee Love, a singer. His older brother is Mike Love. Mike, along with their cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, later formed the Beach Boys.[1]

Basketball career

A 6'9" forward, Love graduated from Morningside High School (where he was a center in his senior year),[2] Inglewood, California, then played collegiately for the Oregon Ducks from 1968 to 1971.

Love was the 9th pick in the 1971 NBA draft, chosen by the Baltimore Bullets. He was also selected by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1971 ABA Draft.[3] He had also been selected in the 1970 ABA Draft by the Texas Chaparrals while still an underclassman.[4]

Love had a four-year professional career with Baltimore, the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, and the San Antonio Spurs, then of the American Basketball Association. He retired from the sport in 1975, with per-game averages of 6.6 points (on 0.440 FG and 0.751 FT), 3.9 rebounds and 2.5 fouls for 14.7 minutes in 239 career games.[5]

Love was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.

Caretaker to Brian Wilson

In the late 1970s, Love, alongside professional model Rocky Pamplin, was employed as a full-time bodyguard, trainer and assistant to Brian Wilson, working to re-acclimate the troubled musician's daily life and keep him drug-free. In 1982, Love and Pamplin were fined $750 and placed on six months' probation for a home invasion and assault on Dennis Wilson[6] In 1990, Love filed a petition to be appointed as Brian Wilson's conservator,[7] partly resulting in the court-ordered severing of personal and financial ties between Wilson and therapist Eugene Landy in 1991.[8]

Personal life and post-basketball career

Love married in 1986.[1] He is the father of NBA champion Kevin Love, currently a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers.[9] Love currently resides in Lake Oswego, Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

Media related to Stan Love at Wikimedia Commons

• BasketballReference.com: Stan Love
• U of O Athletics Hall of Fame: Stan Love
• Seth Davis, "Resilient Ducks". Sports Illustrated (SI.com) Jan 9, 2007
• Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
• Carlin, Peter Ames. Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. 1st. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale, 2006.

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